Quotes About Dominance

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

The only people who attain power are those who crave it.

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

Opportunity has power over all things.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.